>
> --- In perlsemny@yahoogroups.com, Paul Oyola <phoyola@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I was attended the LUG meeting this past Wednesday and heard about
> this group. I don't know anything about PERL but would love to learn.
> What book would you suggest to begin. By the way, I'm new to
> programming too.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> > Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
> Hey there Paul,
>
> The classic books for learning Perl are "Learning Perl" followed by
> "Intermediate Perl". These two books will teach you the fundamentals
> in a reasonably complete manner and they won't bore you to death with
> too many details.
>
> You can follow those two up with "Programming Perl". This is the big
> fat exhaustively comprehensive book know as "The Camel Book". It covers
> every feature Perl has to offer and then some.
>
> To top it all off you can have a look at "Perl Best Practices". This
> book does not teach how to program Perl but rather how to program Perl
> correctly and neatly.
>
> I can't attest to whether or not these books are appropriate for
> complete beginners, but it can't hurt to check out the first one to
> see for yourself.
>
> You can also hang out in #perl on irc.freenode.net, it's the place to
> go if you want to chat with other Perl programmers.
>
> And of course you can always come to the monthly PSNY meetings.
>
>
> == Below are links to the aforementioned books ==
>
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnperl4/
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/intermediateperl/
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pperl3/
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlbp/
>
> Good luck and enjoy,
> Patrick
>

I was able to get the Learn Perl 4th ed. Looks pretty good and easy to
follow. When and where are the PSNY meetings?

Your message has been successfully submitted and would be delivered to recipients shortly.